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The 20th century witnessed huge breakthroughs in physics, perhaps most spectacularly the foundation of quantum mechanics in the 1920s.
If the 20th century was the century of physics, the 21st century will be the century of biology.,
Craig Venter and Daniel Cohen [1]
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Morgan, S.E. (2017). Introduction. In: Ultrafast Quantum Effects and Vibrational Dynamics in Organic and Biological Systems. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63399-2_1
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